IT Solutions Company

Terminal Systems, Virtualization of Applications or Server Calculation Systems

What is the Technology of Virtualization of Applications?

Terminal system is the system in which all applications are stored and executed on one or several servers, only monitor images and sound are transmitted to the work places of users, and from users to server are transmitted keystrokes, mouse position, etc. Both specialized devices and usual computers can be used as clients. Such principle of operation is absolutely transparent; it is very attractive for the business, due to the new perspectives it opens.

The applications’ speed, easiness of servicing, possibility of use of outdated equipment, increased fault-tolerance and security – these are the advantages allowing reducing the costs of ownership of an IT infrastructure due to the use of technology of virtualization of applications. But even more important than simplicity of operation and reduced costs are the strategic advantages, which our technologies give to your business:

fast expansion of business – launching new offices within hours instead of weeks
easy deployment of new applications
mobility of business – comfortable access to customary applications for the employees from their homes, when in business trips, for the engineers “in the field”
possibility of launching new remote services for the employees, partners and clients
work in heterogeneous environments, resulting from mergers and takeovers of companies

Our company has a large experience in developing and implementing projects of virtualization of applications and complex systems of IT integration based on the products of different producers, but in the first place on the products of Citrix Systems® Company. During the period of over than five years of work in this area, IT Solutions Company has acquired its own solutions and Know-How. The only certified by Citrix Systems Company engineers and sales professionals in Moldova work for our company. We are the only who obtained the status Citrix Solution Advisor in Moldova, which is the confirmation of our experience, knowledge and professionalism.

In our solutions we use products of the company Citrix Systems® – the leading producer of solutions of terminal access and virtualization of applications. The most interesting series of products in relation to our tasks are Citrix Access Suite™, including:

Our main instrument of building up our terminal solutions is one of the components of Citrix Access Suite™ – Citrix Presentation Server™.

What is Citrix Presentation Server?

Controlled access to any application from any computer through any network
The world’s “number 1” solution of virtualization of applications
Single and consolidated solution of all IT tasks of large companies
Hi - End solution used by 100% of the companies from the “Fortune 100” List

What are you advantages with the Presentation Server?

Easy and efficient management of heterogeneous environment, composed of various networks, clients and applications
Shortening the time for renovation of already existing offices and opening of new ones
Immediate access to information and applications, which considerably lightens the deployment of applications
Considerable reduction of load of data link channels
Possibility of work for mobile users through their notebooks or PDA, just like if they were in their offices
Managing quality and costs of IT services through the end-to-end supervision of the use of the system: who, where, how and when
Ensuring control and safety of access to the company’s protected information and applications
Possibility to turn your attention from constant maintenance of operation of IT system to the strategic IT tasks

How does Citrix Presentation Server save your money?

Considerably reducing expenses for the system management: only servers are administrated, which is done centrally
Considerably increasing the system’s flexibility and reducing expenses for deployment of new applications
Reducing expenses for updating applications
Reducing expenses for users’ operations supervision and ensuring security
Substantially reducing the probability of loss of the users’ important information, because now it is stored on server
You don’t have to invest money in constant modernization of large number of various workstations

Gartner Group has established that TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) for a system which is entirely built based on the technology of virtualization of applications is by 35% lower.

Advantages of Citrix Presentation Server comparing to usual Windows Terminal Services:

Increased productivity (due to the technology of optimization of processor time and memory), consequently - considerably higher number of sessions on one server
Possibility of use of any kinds of printers (due to the universal printing driver)
Considerably lower requirements to the channel bandwidth, allowing deploying the system for remote offices as well
More flexible security rules (Citrix Policy, SmartAccess), encoding, two-factor authentication
Maximum possibility of audit, to the extent that it is possible to find out the list of applications, started by user at every second within any past period
Much more easy administration; with the help of special integrated instruments administrators are able to determine the cause of the performance fall, to follow the history of all failures, the history of productivity projected onto the number of sessions and the list of started applications
Excellent fault-tolerance technologies
Flexible and multifactor load-balancing
Publishing Application, possibility to deploy only certain applications on the client computers in their original form without the user’s access to the full “desktop”
All functions of the client Citrix Presentation Server™, including in the form of web -service
Clients can work in any operation system and on any platform (including Symbian OS, Linux, EPOC, Mac)

Complete list of differences you can find here.

In our solutions we use specialized hardware thin clients from HP, which are delivered with the built-in ICA (Citrix), RDP (Microsoft), Telnet (Unix/Linux) and Java (Web -applications) clients. They allow substantially reducing the total cost of ownership of the IT system due to the longer mean time between failures (MBTF more than 10 times as much).

Classical systems of virtualization of applications based on the Microsoft terminal server and the Citrix Presentation Server product can solve many different tasks of IT Department in the company, but the most effective are complex solutions. The practice has proved that it is more efficient to solve the maximum number of IT tasks in a company by use of a single solution and integrated products. Series of products Citrix Access Suite™ allows companies solving nearly all tasks of IT department in the form of one solution. Such tasks as the establishment of a terminal server, system of networks protection and remote access based on SSL and corporate password manager – all are combined in a single product. The Citrix Access Suite™ integration can be the next step towards the complete, manageable and reliable IT system.

Examples of successful integration of Citrix Systems products in the largest companies of the world you can find here.

Additional information:

Presentation of functionality of Citrix Presentation Server 4.0.

Presentation of functions of the new product - Citrix Presentation Server 4.5.

Should you need more detailed technological information – You can find it here.

You can test-drive the Citrix Presentation Server, by starting up your customary application straight in your browser if you visit this resource